COLTON >> Police here spent Thursday morning investigating a death along the Santa Ana River Trail after a cyclist reported finding a body along the path. The victim, according to Officer Todd Smith with the Colton Police Department, was identified as Lawrence David Cortez, a 50-year-old resident.

SAN BERNARDINO >> A domestic dispute led to a man’s death and woman’s hospitalization Thursday night, according to police. Investigators were working to determine if the north-side killing was with malice or self-defense, according to Lt.

SAN BERNARDINO >> Police are investigating the 22nd fatal crash on city streets two days after another crash claimed the lives of two Fontana residents. Shortly before 3 p.m. Wednesday, it was reported to police that a tow truck was going west on Sixth Street at Waterman Avenue when a Mercury Mountaineer entered the intersection against the red light and crashed into the tow truck, authorities said.

SAN BERNARDINO >> A man who was shot Friday night is expected to survive, police said. The shooting happened about 8:12 p.m. near Sixth and G streets, according to Lt. David Green. The unidentified victim was hit in his lower body.

Five men associated with the Sinaloa Cartel were arrested in Ontario in connection with the trafficking of 55 pounds of methamphetamine with a street value of $2 million, the state Attorney’s General’s Office said Thursday.

Extreme weather is expected to hit the area today with a 50 percent chance of thunderstorms forecast for the Inland Empire east to the Colorado River. On Wednesday some flash flooding was reported along Highway 18 near Lucerne Valley washing away parts of the road.

MECCA - A person was killed and two others injured in a single- vehicle crash in the Salton Sea community of North Shore tonight. The collision was reported at 7:06 p.m. near the intersection of Highway 111 and Vander Veer Road, April Newman of the Riverside County Fire Department said.

SAN BERNARDINO >> San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors Chairman James Ramos and the county’s top law enforcement and fire officials Wednesday sent a blunt message to illegal drone operators who hinder firefighters: They will not tolerate it, and offenders will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

A three-car crash has backed up the bypass lane on the southbound 15 Freeway in the Cajon Pass prompting a SigAlert, officials said. According to reports the crash happened around 11:30 a.m. just south of Highway 138.

RIVERSIDE - Authorities were searching for clues today into what caused a small plane to crash into a Riverside neighborhood, killing the pilot, but injuring no one on the ground. The plane went down and caught fire just after 5 p.

BEAUMONT - An adult and a child in a Toyota Corolla were killed in a three-vehicle collision in Beaumont and two other children in the car were injured, police said today. The children were hospitalized in serious-to-critical condition, Beaumont Police Department Cmdr.

INDIO - Sentencing is scheduled today for a Cathedral City man convicted of 22 felonies and two misdemeanors for carrying out a five-month burglary spree across the Coachella Valley. Arthur Bryan Byrd, 41, was found guilty June 17 of 14 counts of burglary, three counts of resisting arrest, two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm, two counts of petty theft, and one count each of grand theft, being a felon in possession of ammunition and possession of drug paraphernalia.

INDIO - A 27-year-old woman is scheduled to be arraigned today in connection with a raid of her home that allegedly turned up more than 76 grams of methamphetamine. Andrea Simone Hubbard of Blythe is scheduled to appear at the Larson Justice Center in Indio to face felony charges of possession of drugs for sale, maintaining a drug house and violating probation, court records show.

ATLANTA >> R&B singer Bobby Brown said Monday that his daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, was “an angel” and that the family must find a way to honor her memory. Bobbi Kristina, the daughter of singer Whitney Houston, died Sunday in hospice care, six months after she was found face-down in a bathtub in her suburban Atlanta townhome.

RIVERSIDE - An adult and a teenage boy were injured this morning when they were struck by a suspected drunk driver while walking on a Riverside sidewalk, a police lieutenant said. The crash happened at 2 a.

BIG BEAR LAKE >> Firefighters quickly stopped a lightning-sparked fire from spreading in this mountain community Wednesday afternoon. Shortly before 3 p.m., the U.S. Forest Service tweeted that lighning started a 30-by-40-foot fire near Van Dusen Canyon Road north of Big Bear.

ALPHARETTA, Ga. >> The ongoing tensions between the families of the late megastar Whitney Houston and her ex-husband, R&B singer Bobby Brown, erupted Saturday during a memorial service for their daughter, Bobbi Kristina.

SACRAMENTO >> A spike in suicides and attempted suicides has prompted corrections officials to step up oversight at a California women’s prison as inspectors try to pinpoint the cause of the troubling increase.

Despite hot weather, Californians reduced water use 27.3 percent in June, exceeding the governor’s 25 percent mandate imposed as a response to the worsening effects of a four-year drought, state officials announced Thursday.

FRESNO, Calif. >> Campgrounds were evacuated and residents put on alert Monday as a California wildfire threatened hundreds of structures in Sierra National Forest. It was one of nine blazes burning across the state.

MAHWAH, N.J. — Police say a man drove off with a bag containing $150,000 in cash after two employees who were replenishing ATMs mistakenly left it on a lawn in northern New Jersey. Mahwah police say in a news release that the ATM employees had stopped at a business on Industrial Avenue when one of them placed the satchel on the front lawn as he moved items around in their vehicle.

Those who purchase their health insurance plans through Covered California will see an average premium increase of 4 percent in 2016, a slight dip compared with the rate increase consumers saw this year, state exchange officials announced Monday.

If every picture tells a story, then every fight must have a few good tales. No matter how long the fight lasts. From her amateur beginnings to her early days as a professional to her meteoric rise, UFC women’s bantamweight champion

CHARLESTON, W.Va. >> A man killed by an escort he met online is being investigated for possible links to the unsolved disappearances or slayings of women nationwide, authorities said. Neal Falls, of Springfield, Oregon, was carrying axes, a shovel and bleach when he was killed July 18, and authorities said Monday he had been stopped, interviewed or investigated by police in at least 20 states.

Los Angeles Kings defenseman Slava Voynov is serving his domestic violence sentence at the Seal Beach jail. Seal Beach police confirmed Wednesday that Voynov is paying $100 a day to serve his 90-day sentence in the police facility of the Orange County seaside community.

At age 29 and in a committed relationship with his girlfriend, Daniel Garcia, a Long Beach barista, thinks occasionally about what it would be like to own a home. But then he’d rather pay off some personal debt and travel a little more.

DETROIT — In the age of Apple’s CarPlay, a lot of cars on the road still have tape decks. The average vehicle in the U.S. is now a record 11.5 years old, according to consulting firm IHS Automotive, a sign of the increased reliability of today’s vehicles and the lingering impact of the sharp drop in new car sales during the recession.

JUPITER, Fla. >> The Coast Guard searched “aggressively” off the Florida coast and friends combed the shoreline Monday for any sign of two teenage fishermen, described as experienced boaters, who went missing three days earlier after setting out for the Bahamas on a stormy afternoon.

The Inland Empire on Monday morning will see partly cloudy skies with patchy fog, becoming mostly sunny with 15 mph west winds in the afternoon. Highs will be in the upper 80s to low 90s. Monday night will be mostly clear with areas of 15 mph west winds in the evening, becoming light.

Tropical, sauna-like conditions return to the region this week as a monsoonal system from the southwest settles over Southern California, bringing above-normal temperatures, humidity and the possibility of thunderstorms over deserts and mountains, the National Weather Service said Monday.

WASHINGTON >> Air safety investigators have a “high degree of confidence” that a photo of aircraft debris found in the Indian Ocean is of a wing component unique to the Boeing 777, the same model as the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared last year, according to a U.

BEAUMONT >> A toddler nearly drowned in a Beaumont swimming pool today but was rescued by someone at the scene, according to fire officials. Firefighters reported to a home in the 1700 block of Lakeside Avenue at 9:26 a.

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Insisting that Americans deserve better, President Barack Obama chided Republicans Mike Huckabee, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz on Monday for a series of campaign-trail attacks that he said would be “ridiculous if it weren’t so sad.

Redlands Firefighters responded to a structure fire in the 800 block of Pacific Street Friday morning. No injuries were reported. • Video: Redlands firefighters respond to Pacific Street house fire Firefighters responded to the blaze in the single-story, single-family home at about 11:15 a.

SEATTLE — Menu prices are up 21 percent and you don’t have to tip at Ivar’s Salmon House on Seattle’s Lake Union after the restaurant decided to institute the city’s $15-an-hour minimum wage two years ahead of schedule.

In the endless feedback loop of social media’s shaming machine, Walter Palmer never existed as a real person. As soon as word got out that the Minnesota dentist had shot and killed an African lion so beloved it had a Disneyfied name — Cecil — the basic bio of Palmer’s digital avatar was quickly formulated: cowardly lion-killer, serial murderer of the planet’s most beautiful, and endangered, species.

DELAWARE, Ohio — An Ohio man who jumped a fence to pet cougars at the Columbus zoo and posted video of it on YouTube says he jokingly said “Here, kitty” and decided to move closer when the animals seemed to respond.

ALTURAS >> A firefighter killed by a wildfire in Northern California was scouting the area when he became trapped by the wind-stoked blaze, officials said Saturday. U.S. Forest Service firefighter David Ruhl was driving down a Modoc National Forest road in a vehicle Thursday.

LOS ANGELES >> A judge Thursday tentatively voided the sale of a former convent in Los Feliz to a restaurant owner, but he did not rule on whether the Archdiocese of Los Angeles may sell the property for $14.

ANAHEIM, Calif. >> — The Los Angeles Angels acquired veteran outfielder Shane Victorino and more than $3.8 from the Boston Red Sox on Monday for infielder Josh Rutledge. The 34-year-old Victorino is a two-time World Series champion, a two-time All-Star and a four-time Gold Glove winner.

The news broke early Tuesday. Cecil, a 13-year-old black-maned lion of Zimbabwe had been killed by a Minnesota dentist with a bow and arrow. The story made international news. Trophy hunter Walter Hunter paid $55,000 to kill a lion in the wild.

Boston’s bid to host the 2024 Olympics is over. The city and the U.S. Olympic Committee severed ties after a board teleconference Monday, ending an effort that was troubled nearly from the moment it started.

RIO DE JANEIRO — The waters where Olympians will compete in swimming and boating events next summer in South America’s first games are rife with human sewage and present a serious health risk for athletes, as well as for visitors to the iconic beaches of Rio de Janeiro.

SAN FRANCISCO >> A 15-year-old boy charged as an adult with raping and killing his 8-year-old neighbor in California is too young to understand what he is accused of doing, youth advocacy groups said Friday.

PALM SPRINGS - Humid conditions with isolated thunderstorms and sometimes-heavy rain are expected to move into the Coachella Valley beginning late tonight and continuing into early next week. “We’re going to have an extended period of classic monsoon conditions,” said Tina Stall, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s San Diego office.

The Inland Empire on Sunday morning will see partly cloudy skies with patchy fog, becoming mostly sunny with 15 mph west winds with gusts to 25 mph in the afternoon. Highs will be in the low to mid 90s.

The moment drove her to her knees. The tears streaked down her face. Her spirit soared. Ngoy Marijo Bibiche hadn’t dared dream about this. Just getting to Los Angeles for the Special Olympics World Games was supposed to be its own victory.

SAN FRANCISCO — Like a lot of teenagers, Aanya Nigam reflexively shares her whereabouts, activities and thoughts on Twitter, Instagram and other social networks without a qualm. But Aanya’s care-free attitude dissolved into paranoia a few months ago shortly after her mother bought Amazon’s Echo, a digital assistant that can be set up in a home or office to listen for various requests, such as for a song, a sports score, the weather, or even a book to be read aloud.